Originally Posted by
Da40Pilot
That is the product of newly minted CFIs with absolutely no knowledge of the industry not doing proper research. XJT now has a fancy marketing video and their recruiters are going to all these universities and convincing people that being on reserve for over 2 years and never upgrading is worth giving up because of the amazing contract.
Seriously, at this day and age it baffles me how some people will go into a place where they'll stagnate when there's regionals out there with virtually zero reserve, better pay and a 2-year upgrade.
True, but the point I'm trying to make is that there are "newly minted CFIs " . There are enough of them to go to Skywest and there are enough of them to go to XJT and stagnate. I might believe there was a pilot shortage if those 78 new hires were dispersed amongst all the regionals. But 78 for ONE regional? Lots of pilots out there.